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| ‘Govt not addressing panchayat empowerment’ | | | early times report
Jammu, Nov 8: Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron, Mufti Muhammad Sayed today said the decision to hold election to four Legislative Council seats reflected the myopic vision of the coalition government. He was addressing a gathering from Basoli.
Addressing a function to welcome large number of political activists from Basholi area who joined PDP under the leadership of Rangil Singh, Sarpanch from Mahanpur, Mr Sayeed at time when Panchayat members were agitating for the real empowerment of Panchayats, the government has announced elections for the Legislative Council seats. "Electing Legislative Council members from the quota of Panchayat is not a real issue but the main issue is delegating powers to the Panchayats to set up a vibrant Panchayati Raj system in the State to decentralize power at the grass root level", he said.
Mufti expressed surprise over the keenness shown by the government to hold LC elections. "The Block Development Councils (BDCs) elections were the constitutional obligation to set up a three tier Panchayat Raj system. But the government deferred them without any reason but was in a hurry to elect Legislative Council members from the quota of Panchayats", he said.
"It seems that entire process of holding elections of the Panchayats was planned only to get four seats of Legislative Council and the government has no intention to decentralize power at grass root level as par the spirit of Panchayati Raj system", he said, adding, He accused the government of betraying the people for four seats of LC.
PDP patron said that it was a historic fact that ruling National Conference has always thrived by repression and by creating fear among the masses. "Presently there is fear psychosis among the Panchayat members and the National Conference wants to take benefit of the prevailing fear among Panchayat members", he said.
He said during the last four years this regime has gradually undermined democratic institutions. He mentioned that elections of the urban local bodies were due in the month of February 2010 but this government has been postponing these elections without any reason. He said that faith of the people has badly shattered due to such deceit tactics of the National Conference -Congress regime.
General secretary of PDP Thakur Balbir Singh, Joginder Singh, zone president Basholi also spoke on the occasion.
Earlier Rangil Singh along with large number of his supporters joined PDP. Prominent among others who joined PDP included Balram Sharma, Kamal Kishore Rahul Kumar, Tajinder Singh, Rajni Bala, Bhushan Kumar, Mohammad Mirza, Mohammad Rafiq, Tarseem Kumar and others. These political activists belong to National Conference and Congress.
Rangil Singh, Sarpanch from Mahanpur said that he has decided to join PDP due to programme and policies of the party. He expressed his faith in the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti. |
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